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This is the love story between the baseball hero, Lou Gehrig and his wife Eleanor as they meet and eventually marry, told through Eleanor's eyes. Together, they go through the tremendous highs of his baseball career and then they deal with the incurable amytropic lateral sclerosis that kills Lou...the condition is later referred to as Lou Gehrig's Disease.
Original Release
10/09/1977
US Release
10/09/1977
Cast
Name | Character |
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Blythe Danner | Eleanor Gehrig |
Edward Herrmann | Lou Gehrig |
Gerald S. O'Loughlin | Joe McCarthy |
Ramon Bieri | Babe Ruth |
Jane Wyatt | Eleanor's Mother |
Patricia Neal | Mrs. Gehrig |
Georgia Engel | Claire Ruth |
Michael Lerner | Dr. Canlan |
David Ogden Stiers | Dr. Charles Mayo |
Gail Strickland | Dorothy |
Directors
Writers
Joseph Durso, Eleanor Gehrig, Blanche Hanalis
Cast
Name | Character |
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Blythe Danner | Eleanor Gehrig |
Edward Herrmann | Lou Gehrig |
Gerald S. O'Loughlin | Joe McCarthy |
Ramon Bieri | Babe Ruth |
Jane Wyatt | Eleanor's Mother |
Patricia Neal | Mrs. Gehrig |
Georgia Engel | Claire Ruth |
Michael Lerner | Dr. Canlan |
David Ogden Stiers | Dr. Charles Mayo |
Gail Strickland | Dorothy |
Valerie Curtin | Kitty McHie |
Jennifer Penney | Jennifer |
Lainie Kazan | Sophie Tucker |
James Luisi | Tony Lazzeri |
Joe E. Tata | Lefty Gomez |
William Wellman Jr. | Bill Dickey |
Charles H. Gray | Kenderly |
Frederic Downs | Papa Gehrig |
James Greene | John Kieran |
Robert Burr | Joe Durso |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Richard Berg | Executive Producer |
Charles W. Fries | Executive Producer |
Thomas Fries | Producer |
David Manson | Producer |
Editors
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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1978 | Emmy | Outstanding Achievement in Makeup | Nominated |
1978 | Emmy | Outstanding Writing in a Special Program - Drama or Comedy - Adaptation | Nominated |